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Practical Oracle Dictionary of Chinese Jia-Gu-Wen MA Tianlin (PhD) Preface
Chinese Oracle (Jia-Gu-Wen) is one of the oldest word characters and the most perfect hieroglyphs saved in the world dating back 3,500 years of history. It has been long-term preserved, because our ancestors in SHANG dynasty carved the information of their social lives on the tortoise shells and animal bones with the Chinese earliest ideographic writing. Since Emperor Qin Shi Huang unified Chinese word-characters, and later on, papers and pens together with the writing methods were invented and updated, the earliest oracle of Chinese Jia-Gu-Wen has been steadily forgotten by society. Until the twenty-fifth years (1899) of Guang-Xu, the emperor of Qing dynasty, Mr. Wang Yi-Rong occasionally discovered the Chinese oracles carved on the tortoise shells as the Chinese traditional medicine, which introduced a great period for Chinese and foreign archaeological researchers to study Chinese Oracle (Jia-Gu-Wen). In 1928, Chinese archaeologists began to conduct a large-scale field archaeological excavation at the ruins of Shang Dynesty in An-Yang county of He-Nan Province. Since then, many significant achievements for the studying of Chinese Oracle have been made, and a series of great publications have been come out, such as «The Collection of Jia-Gu-Wen» written by Mr. Sun Hai-bo (孫海波《甲骨文编》), «The Continuous Collection of Jia-Gu-Wen» written by Mr. Jin Xiang-heng (金祥恒《续甲骨文编》), the «Translation of the Characters in Collection of Jia-Gu-Wen» written by Mr. Li Xiao-ding (李孝定《甲骨文字集译》), the «Greater Collection of Jia-Gu-Wen» by Mr. Guo Mo-ruo (郭沫若) and Mr. Hu Hou-xuan (胡厚宣《甲骨文合集》), the «Dictionary of Jia-Gu-Wen» compiled by Mr. Xu Zhong-shu (徐中舒《甲骨文字典》), the «Newly Compiled Dictionary of Jia-Gu-Wen» compiled by Mr. Liu Xing-long (刘兴隆《新编甲骨文字典》), «The New Collection of Jia-Gu-Wen» written by Mr. Liu Zhao (刘钊《新甲骨文编》). So far, the «Dictionary of Jia-Gu-Wen» edited by Mr. Xu Zhongshu contains various kinds of the previous results of the typical Oracle studying. It copies about 4,500 original characters of Jia-Gu-Wen, and identifies about 1450 characters of Jia-Gu-Wen for their interpretation, and thus builds a milestone for understanding Chinese Jia-Gu-Wen in past tens of decades, and provides a useful and valuable key for further profound studying towards Chinese Jia-Gu-Wen. Obviously, it is really difficult to depend on such poor 1450 characters of Chinese Jia-Gu-Wen to recognize and express the current rich Chinese text. This is the main reason why there are so few of the calligraphy and painting artists to engage in the artworks with Chinese Jia-Gu-Wen. However, the characters of Chinese Jia-Gu-Wen are right the root of the Chinese text. Logically, we can still find, more or less, some relevant information between modern Chinese and ancient Chinese oracle. Of course the real work is rather difficult indeed. In an effort to promote Chinese culture and language which leads to the root symbol of the Chinese nation, we have gotten plenty of wisdom from God, and concentrated our minds to compile this newly edited book, «Practical Oracle Dictionary of Chinese Jia-Gu-Wen» in past 10 more years.
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